letter from America
One of the challenges of writing this “Letter from America” is the sheer scale of America, and in particular American Evangelicalism. It is hard to “take the temperature” of what is going on at any particular moment when, in truth, there are many different things going on.
Of course, the art is to simplify without falsehood, depict without distorting. But shall we talk of some of the conversations within the Southern Baptist Convention, or the Presbyterian Church of America, or The Gospel Coalition, or the collection of Christian Universities and Schools? Shall we survey the current state of (broadly speaking) reformed evangelicalism, progressive evangelicalism, dispensational evangelicalism? Or, instead, shall we take the tack of looking at the reputation of evangelicalism as it is being perceived?
That latter approach is the one that I shall take in this column this time. Without adding to the pain that the reporting of these various scandals, disturbances, and conflicts have caused by being reported in other venues that the reader can easily find with a quick Google search (or employing the dubious joys of ChatGPT), there have once again been a number of such controversies in the news. What to make of them?
